In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...

DETROIT, MI — No, it wasn’t just your imagination. The Temptations were centerstage at the Thursday Night Football halftime show as the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys squared off on Thursday, Dec. 4 ...

Detroit Lions fans got a dose of classic, stylish Motown on Thursday night, Dec. 4, as the Temptations served up a set of homegrown hits. Sporting crisp white suits and snappy choreography, the iconic ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations. By Hank Shteamer In a year that saw the deaths of two leading drummers, ...

Taylor Swift released an album so bad we won’t even talk about it. FKA twigs fucked around with EUSEXUA and found out… it got even better? Rosalía let her hair down from the Tower of Babel. Addison ...

In other words, 2025 had plenty of peaks and valleys. In our list of the year’s top albums, we try to capture these trends and tell the story of a music scene that is fractured, matching a cultural ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

On this day (November 19) in 1979, Kenny Rogers was at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart with Kenny. The LP was a massive hit, spending 25 uninterrupted weeks in the top spot. It also ...

A man convicted of the 1979 killing of a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom was put to death Thursday evening in a record 16th execution in Florida this year. Barring a last-minute ...